{"product_id":"film-isms-ronald-bergan-9780789322142","title":"Film Isms...: Understanding Cinema","description":"The perfect small-format, one-stop resource to appreciating and understanding films from Hollywood to Bollywood. Following the success of Isms: Understanding Art and Isms: Understanding Architectural Styles, this guide sorts the great classic films and directors according to the significant movements that have shaped the development of cinema. Beginning with the early silent era, it spans the entire range of movie history up to the present wave of indie films and the growing fascination with international cinema. Each spread is devoted to a distinct movement and explains when it first emerged, the principal directors, themes, and representative films, and is illustrated with film stills, posters, and photos. Important international cinematic breakthroughs are also highlighted, as well as the careers of international auteurs like Kurosawa, Fellini, and Almod var. From prewar Expressionism to twenty-first-century Dystopianism, Film Isms... offers an engaging, new way of understanding movie history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ronald Bergan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0789322145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780789322142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Universe Publishing(NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.64w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2011 pg. 76","brand":"Ronald Bergan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072769323263,"sku":"9780789322142","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7c2342fe-f692-4b8e-a7fa-ce1563c90e88.jpg?v=1685443879","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/film-isms-ronald-bergan-9780789322142","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}